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“If you have to ask someone in Japan for a business favor,” says Lincoln Taylor, a whitewater rafting guide and entrepreneur in Gunma, “bring two bottles of shochu liquor. Give one as a present then suggest you drink the other one together. By the end of the visit, you’ll have what you want.” It’s been …

2 gaijin free-enterprise guys strike out on their own by Corky Alexander In a land that stresses teamwork, consensus, anonymity in the group, the instance of an indi­vidual striking out on his own to seek his fortune is rare, indeed. To the average Japanese wage earner, it must be much more comfortable, assur­ing and less …